Procurement Leader

1 month ago


Brisbane, Australia Suncorp Group Full time

**Procurement Leader - Banking & Real Estate**
- **Fixed term contract - 3 months**:

- **Flexible Location -Brisbane**

**About the role**:
The role exists to deliver procurement category management across Suncorp’s Banking & Real Estate Procurement Portfolio. It will require the development of Category, Sourcing Plans and implementing subsequent sourcing/negotiation initiatives. This activity is to be enabled by a professional with a strong procurement knowledge and experience with relevant categories, associated commercials and strong stakeholder management skills.

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Strategic initiatives**

The role is responsible for developing and implementing Category plans, sourcing strategies and/or negotiation strategies that:

- Gather appropriate market and industry intelligence about categories in scope
- Analyse and summarise existing contracts and current spend
- Align to Function strategies and/or business requirements
- Identify initiatives that derive benefits, through sourcing, demand management and/or contract management opportunities
- Prioritise initiatives according to business criticality, capacity requirements, inter-dependencies and potential benefits
- Leverage strong collaborative supplier relationships and supplier innovation, which enable additional value for Suncorp
- Define appropriate supply models for each category of spend
- Align Supplier and Suncorp processes to drive efficiencies for both parties
- Determine the roles & responsibilities between Procurement and stakeholders within relevant Function; this will involve an assessment of complexity, existing intellectual property, risk, legal requirements, budget ownership and other relevant factors
- Establish contracts that are competitive, reduce risk and optimise supply through appropriate SLAs
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

**Maintenance of Suppliers and Contracts**

The role is responsible for managing a category of existing suppliers and contracts, with the aim of:

- Planning for a pipeline of contract renewal activity
- Ensuring contract renewals are competitive, delivered through an appropriate supply model and well scoped
- Execute extensions, variations and terminations of legal instruments that meet stakeholders’ business needs
- Monitor leakage indicators and propose viable solutions to category owners and business owners
- Map and identify opportunities to improve demand management
- Resolve supplier disputes that have been escalated or are of a systematic or strategic nature
- Comply with all Suncorp policies, processes and governance

**About you**:

- Tertiary education is highly desirable, with a Procurement & Supply Chain focus or an Information Technology, Business or Commerce related degree. Desired
- Experienced procurement professional with minimum of 5 years’ experience in procurement category management. Mandatory
- Experience with Banking, Facilities Management or Technology services type agreements. Desired
- Experience in large organisations with complex environments. Desired
- Experience in a centre led procurement/commercial environment providing services to a broad customer base. Desired
- Experienced in achieving and being accountable for tangible commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience in conducting data analysis to support negotiations and commercial results. Mandatory
- Experience in delivering quality outputs within tight timeframes within a standardised project management framework and structured procurement approach. Mandatory
- Experience in working with others in a (preferably commercial) strategy setting role. Mandatory

**Key Competencies**

**Procurement (Advanced)**
- Experience across various procurement activities including category management and strategic sourcing
- Strong negotiation skills demonstrated across a range of supplier, commercial and internal stakeholder management contexts

**Analytics (Intermediate)**
- Analytical business skills
- Displays financial / commercial acumen and seasoned business judgment
- Demonstrate experience in understanding and extracting benefits out of value chains
- Exhibit value chain analysis knowledge to assist the business meet their objectives

**General Business (Advanced)**
- Verbal and written communication skills - including presentation and communications to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) level as required
- Time management skills and ability to manage several concurrent tasks with differing timelines and deliverables
- Ability to cope with pressure, prioritise workload and meet agreed timetables

**Legal (Advanced)**
- Understand legal, regulatory and contractual frameworks
- Experienced in formulating and reviewing legal contractual documents and schedules under guidance

**Logistics (Intermediate)**
- Understand Asset Management principles including total cost of ownership
- Understand the impact of Supply Chain structures and cost drivers

**Management and Leadership (Advanced)


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